hy.

From what we can learn, we infer that the prominent traits in her
character were strong affections, energy, and disinterestedness. Of a
slight and delicate frame and constitution, and a sensibility almost
amounting to sensitiveness, she at an early age engaged in duties and
made sacrifices scarcely expected from the robust and vigorous. And her
exertions had for their end mainly to benefit those she loved. Whether
she taught in the district school, or in the higher seminary, or wrote
Sunday-school books, or contributed to literary periodicals, her
affection for her mother, and desire to lighten her burdens, seem to
have stimulated her exertions and called forth her powers. In her early
religious experience, the same disinterestedness manifested itself; for
no sooner did she feel the renewing power of faith in her own heart,
than she longed to impart even to the distant heathen the same precious
blessing.[14] Unselfish affection is also, we think, a strongly marked
trait in her married life. Not long after their arrival in Burmah, Mr.
Judson writes: "Emily loves the children as if they were her own." And
again, nearly two years later: "We are a deliciously happy family;" and
again, "Emily has taken to my two boys as if they were her own; so that
we are a very happy family; not a happier, I am sure, on the broad
earth."

Another proof of the same trait, was her loving and sympathetic
appreciation of a peculiar trait in her husband, which, had her
disposition been less noble, might have caused her some annoyance. Of
this trait Dr. Wayland thus speaks: "There was a feature in Dr. Judson's
affection as a husband, which was, I think, peculiar. He was, as it is
well known, married three times, and no man was ever more tenderly
attached to each of his wives. The present affection, however, seemed in
no respect to lessen his affection for those for whom he mourned. He
ever spoke of those who had gone before, with undiminished interest. In
one of his letters to his daughter, after saying he did not believe
there existed on earth so happy a family as his, he soon after adds: 'My
tears fall frequently for her who lies in her lone bed at St. Helena.'
It was at his suggestion that Mrs. Emily Judson wrote the life of her
predecessor. He frequently refers with delight to the time when he, and
all those whom he so much loved, shall meet in Paradise, no more to
part, but to spend an eternity together in the presence of Christ. Thos